April 21st – 7pm $10
Miller’s deconstructed Gibson Kalamazoo is equipped with 4 pickups panned Left/Right; 1 in standard bridge position, 1 inverted above the first fret and 2 Piezos at the headstock and on the guitar body near the bridge. Screws, springs, silverware, binder clips, and other found objects are used to provoke texture and shape rather than chords and melody. Baritone strings are tuned randomly approximately a tritone below standard pitch.
Miller adds a score of FX pedals, Casio SK1 8-bit sampling, transistor radio, OGM tape loops, and the extreme use of a Bigsby tailpiece enhancing the instrument’s erratic microtonal sound. The mixed output is run stereo through two big guitar amps. The guitarscape is created through spontaneous and loosely structured improvisation. Submerged attention and trusting the unknown is Miller’s modus operandi.
Bubba Fontaine is an American experimental songwriter, composer, guitarist, multimedia artist, and maker from Indianapolis, Indiana. His music is eclectic and sometimes, deliberately, a little bizarre. No single musical genre encapsulates the entire Fontaine catalog. Bubba’s aural creations have been described or labeled as all of the following: experimental, progressive fusion, rock, Avant-Garde chamber, and ambient electronic music.
The Fontaine musical ensemble changes frequently and is designed to shape-shift depending on the musical direction and requirements. More recent ensembles have included members of the Straight Up Chumps, the Max Allen Band, Lynzi Stringer, Tracksuit Lyfestyle, Ultravolt, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, among others. Mixing and combining sounds and textures from various talented musicians from around the globe is the backbone of Bubba Fontaine.
March 7th 8pm
Tom Law / Gabriel Beam
BigSphinx, aka Tom Law, is a composer/improviser from Saugerties NY
who performs laptop-based electroacoustic music with viola da gamba.He is a member of Duo Denum, Cheli-Law Duo, and Elka Bong Big Band,
and is currently developing a new Baroque/noise improv project
with interdisciplinary performance artist CillaVee.He is also a member of NYC early music ensembles
Nautilus Renaissance Viols and the New York Continuo Collective.A native South Carolinian, he opened the figmental Conundrum Music Hall
in West Columbia in 2011, and closed it in 2015.
Gabriel Beam, will be opening with his synth/live sampling
Toledo Bellows 